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Thursday Jan 23, 2014

The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.1 Beta 1 - the start of the
public beta testing phase of MySQL Workbench 6.1

MySQL Workbench 6.1 is the upcoming major update for the official MySQL
graphical development tool.Introducing over 30 new features, this version has many significant
enhancement focusing on real-time performance assessment and analysis
from the SQL statement level to server internals and file IO. You'll
see this in additions to the SQL Editor as well as new dashboard
visualization and reporting that takes advantage of MySQL Server 5.6
and 5.7 Performance Schema, and enhancements to the MySQL Explain Plans.

Additionally Workbench 6.1 this leveraging work from various teammates in
MySQL Engineering in introducing a schema called "SYS" that provides
simplified views on Performance Schema, Information Schema, and other areas.
Special thanks to the server optimizer team, server runtime team, and Mark
Leith. For Oracle DBAs MySQL SYS is similar to the V$ catalog views and
MSSQL folks its like DMVs (Dynamic Management Views).

MySQL Workbench 6.1 includes:

Improved drag and drop support in the Home screen and SQL Editor

Visual Explain 2. The Visual Explain feature was revamped is now easier to read and interpret. You can also get the traditional tabular explain output from within the same interface.

Performance Dashboard. A graphical representation of some key statisticsfrom the server status, gives you a bird's eye view of the status of key server subsystems.

For advanced users, Performance Schema Instrumentation. A GUI for making configuring the Performance Schema in detail, for advanced users.

Performance Schema based reporting. Gives insight into the operation of the server through many high-level reports.

New query result view. Get more information about queries you execute, such as information about the fields in your result set and key performance statistics from your query (timing, index usage, number of rows scanned, joins etc).

Form Editor for resultsets. In addition to the result grid, you can now edit records row by row in a form style editor.

Table Inspector. Similar to the Schema Inspector, view detailed information from tables. A streamlined interface for creating indexes is also included.

Support for the Windows accessibility API and a new High contrast color theme in Windows.

And more.

More than 60 enhancement requests and bugs reported by users have also been addressed, providing performance, usability and stability improvements
across the board.

Thursday Jun 13, 2013

The MySQL Developer Tools team is pleased to announce the availability of the first beta release of MySQL Workbench 6.0.

MySQL Workbench 6.0 is the new major update of the Development and Administration tool for MySQL. This release includes over 100 bug fixes, 30 new features and a new redesigned UI.

As a beta, this release is not suitable for production use. Please test and file your bug reports at http://bugs.mysql.com

As always, MySQL Workbench is natively available on Windows, Mac, Linux.

Improvements in MySQL Workbench 6.0:

a new redesigned Home screen

the SQL Editor and Server Administration UIs were merged into a single connection specific interface, allowing for quick access to administration features while simplifying the location of specific features

Thursday Dec 27, 2012

The MySQL developer tools team announces the availability of version 5.2.45 of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool. This version contains various fixes and minor enhancements and includes 72 resolved bugs.

This version contains the following significant updates:- Support for several new MySQL 5.6 features- Import recordsets from CSV file for the Inserts editor in Modeling and in the SQL Editor- Improved trigger editor- more

Additionally, MySQL Utilities 1.1.1 have been included on the distribution.

For a full list of issues fixed in this release, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/wb-news-5-2-45.html

Please get your copy from our Downloads site. In Windows, you can also use the MySQL Windows Installer to update Workbench and other MySQL products.

Sources and binary packages are available for several platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/

Workbench Documentation can be found here.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/index.html

Utilities Documentation can be found here.http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysql-utilities.html

Thursday Sep 13, 2012

The MySQL developer tools team announces the availability of version 5.2.44
of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool. This version contains various fixes
and minor enhancements and includes 8 resolved bugs.

This version improves the Migration Tool to support additional RDBMSes- PostgreSQL 8.x and 9.x- Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 15.x- Any RDBMS that implements the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views from the SQL-92 standard

Additionally, MySQL Utilities 1.1.0 have been included on the distribution.

Wednesday Jul 25, 2012

The MySQL developer tools team announces the availability of version 5.2.41 of the MySQL Workbench GUI tool. This version has significant improvements in several parts of the tool and also includes the new Migration Wizard plugin.

The new Migration Wizard presents an easy to use GUI for migrating databases from third party products to MySQL. In this initial release, support for Microsoft SQL Server is included, in addition to other products that support ODBC, such as PostgreSQL.

Wednesday May 16, 2012

The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.40.
This version contains more than 28 bug fixes applied over version 5.2.39.

In addition to the new Query/SQL Development and Administration
modules, version 5.2 features improved stability and performance –
especially in Windows, where OpenGL support has been enhanced and the UI
was optimized to offer better responsiveness.

Tuesday Apr 10, 2012

The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance
release of its flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.39. This version contains MySQL Utilities 1.0.5, a set of command line Python utilities for helping to perform and script various administration tasks for MySQL. A complete list of changes in this release of the Utilities can be found at:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-utils-news-1-0-5.html

In addition to the new Query/SQL Development and Administration
modules, version 5.2 features improved stability and performance –
especially in Windows, where OpenGL support has been enhanced and the UI
was optimized to offer better responsiveness.

In addition to the new Query/SQL Development and Administration modules, version 5.2 features improved stability and performance – especially in Windows, where OpenGL support has been enhanced and the UI was optimized to offer better responsiveness.

In addition to the new Query/SQL Development and Administration modules, version 5.2 features improved stability and performance – especially in Windows, where OpenGL support has been enhanced and the UI was optimized to offer better responsiveness. This release also includes improvements to the scripting capabilities of the SQL Editor. You can read more about it in